Word: ralph
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...islands by endorsing Inouye. Inouye won by better than 2 to 1, carrying with him Democrat John A. Burns, 53, former territorial delegate to the U.S. Congress, over Republican Governor William F. Quinn. Among the other winners in a Democratic sweep: Mrs. Helena Hale, 44, a niece of Dr. Ralph Bunche, who became Hawaii County chairman and the first woman to hold a top public office in the islands since Queen Liliuokalani...
...liberal candidate for superintendent was Ralph Richardson, 44, a U.C.L.A. English professor and president of the Los Angeles school board, who argued for lively innovations in schools, such as teaching machines and team teaching. Richardson described Rafferty as having "one of the finest minds of the twelfth century,'' snapped that Rafferty was running against "the ghost of John Dewey" rather than discussing current realities...
...official secrecy successful. Italian newsmen seek out Italian prelates, some of whom cheerfully tell them what the Vatican will not; many other clerics have followed this Roman example. And any frustrated reporter can attend unofficial briefings staged by Father Ralph Wiltgen, director of a news service for the Divine Word, a Catholic missionary order. Father Wiltgen distributes his own informative handouts, holds press conferences at which the speaker is usually a council delegate. Last week Father Wiltgen produced Bishop Antonio de Castro Mayer of Campos, Brazil. "I just want the world to learn what's happening," says...
...Elliott, himself a member of the group of Tennessee poets, will illustrate his remarks with recordings of Allan Tate, John Crowe Ransom, and others reading and discussing their work at a recent reunion of Vanderbuilt University. Among future speakers in the Forum series will be Robert Penn Warren and Ralph McGill, editor of the Atlanta Constitution...
Last June, alarmed at the cautiously nonfundamentalist approach of a book called The Message of Genesis by Baptist Ralph Elliott, the Southern Baptist Convention reaffirmed the church's faith in "the entire Bible as the authoritative, authentic, infallible Word of God" and urged seminaries to stamp out "theological views which would undermine such faith in the historical accuracy and doctrinal integrity of the Bible." A fortnight ago, carrying out that mandate, the trustees of Kansas City's Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary "reluctantly and regretfully" fired Ralph Elliott from his professorship there...